Lecturer in charge: Dr. Harold McDermott

An introduction to methods and techniques of critical appreciation of poetry. The lectures will be complemented by assignments in critical analysis of a variety of poems from the prescribed text and elsewhere.

Level: I

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: None

Instruction: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: Best 4 coursework assignments 40%

Final 3-hour examination (2 answers) 60%

Prescribed Texts:

•  Perrine, Laurence & Thomas R. Arp. Sound and Sense (8 th ed. Harcourt, Brace pb)

•  Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms (8 th ed. Thomson-Wadsworth pb)